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Shed painting tips

Propainter72

I paintsheds for a living and my #1 tip is...

Coolfriend

Protip: paint your shed pink, it's the best color

Suehelpful

Howto guide: repainting an old shed

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Yournamehere

There are so many colors, how can I choose?

Suehelpful

If you can't choose one, how about a rainbow!
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Car Talk uses Discourse as a forum for their thousands of loyal listeners and readers. We dare you to come up with a questions about cars that can not be answered on their forum of experts & avid hobbyists.

Discourse is flat out amazing. It’s powerful, reliable, and flexible. We transitioned from another provider a year ago and never looked back. We’ve only just started to tap into its versatility. And— oh, the best part? They're great folks who are smart and listen to our needs. (Thank you, Jeff and Neil!)

Frostbite is a game engine originally developed by EA DICE for its Battlefield series. Frostbite uses Discourse as a private forum to discuss company-specific internal technologies and toolsets.

Traditionally, most of our communication has been done via mailing lists, but as our community has grown over the past few years the mailing list model has increasingly become a hurdle for us for many types of communication, for a variety of reasons. This topic on Meta gives a nice overview of why a particular sub-community inside Frostbite really prefers Discourse over mailing lists.

Western Digital uses Discourse as a public support forum for their product line.

(...) The more we get to know the Discourse platform, the more we fall in love with it. It’s simple and intuitive, but much more powerful than you imagine. We don’t know how many times we got lost cruising around checking out all the features. And, as a plus, we really enjoy working with the Discourse team.

Code School uses Discourse as a commenting platform for all of their courses, helping learners easily get in touch with their peers and mentors.

Discourse is used by Code School users' when they have questions about courses and coding challenges. We're not a games company, but we do try to gamify the coding learning experience to make it more enjoyable and sticky. A lot of our users still reach out to Support when they have questions about code, but we try to push them to ask the forum for help with those kind of things.